PowerPC Platform

PowerPC Platform

(architecture, standard)

(PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference
Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform)
An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure
compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different
companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but
will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA.

LynxOS-178, the only time- and space-partitioned RTOS that has been awarded the F Reusable Software Component (RSC) certification and targets both the Intel x86 and PowerPC platforms, was quickly modified to enable over 340 APIs to satisfy the requirements within the newly approved FACE Technical Standards.

It phased out support for NT on MIPS in October 1996 due to decreasing demand, and two months later IBM Corp abandoned its own plans to support NT on PowerPC platforms, prompting Microsoft to officially drop support for the PowerPC in February 1997.

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